March 3, 2003

As the Wilderness Act nears its 40th birthday, it takes a
new kind of wheeling and dealing to protect wild lands, and
there’s no better place to see the new face of the movement
than Las Vegas, Nev. Also in this
issue: The Border Patrol wants to erect 249 miles of
fences along the Arizona-Mexico border, and some environmentalists
are worried about their impact on desert wildlife.

New Mexico keeps cockfighting and dogfighting; western
sage grouse not listed; too many Mormon handcart pullers in
Wyoming; Lake Powell and other reservoirs dropping; and Colorado
studies "Big Straw" and "logging for water."